A prime -time host on Fox News accidentally dropped an “F-bomb” Monday night while introducing one of the Republican Party’s most prominent Christian conservatives, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. The gaffe was committed by host Megyn Kelly, moved to her slot late last year in hopes of attracting more women and young people to the […]
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If the 2014 election were a fish, the voters would have tossed it back in the water. The estimated 54 percent voter participation in Washington was its lowest since 1978, another election in which no statewide public office was on the ballot. It’s worse for the country as a whole. Across America, just 36.3 percent of […]
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Conservative, Washington-born pundit Glenn Beck told his audience on The Blaze Monday that a mysterious health crisis “quite honestly has made me look crazy” but has now been cured. The affliction dates from when Beck was a top-rated commentator on Fox News, when he made such charges as saying that President Obama was “a racist” […]
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AOL is the latest major technology firm to sever its ties with the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, the National Journal reported on Monday. The company decided “a number of weeks ago” to sever its ties with ALEC, a nationwide group which has drafted Stand Your Ground laws, voter identification requirements, and state laws cutting […]
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Our state’s headline writers will likely need to change just one figure in articles on 2016 races for Congress in Washington: Instead of nine, stories will be topped with, “All 10 of state’s U.S. House members expected to win reelection.” Here’s why. Washington names an “independent” redistricting commission every 10 years, which redraws electoral […]
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The high-profile presence of New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller on America’s political scene, a half-century ago, has receded into occasional memories of the Attica prison uprising and the suppressed scandal of Rocky’s death alone with a comely young aide. New York has shrunk in the political landscape. The moderate “Rockefeller Republicanism” has been eclipsed and largely […]
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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Tweeted that net neutrality is “Obamacare for the Internet” in response to President Obama’s statement Monday calling on the Federal Communications Commission to regulate Internet providers. Obama’s urging the FCC to “implement the strongest possible rules” to keep the Internet open set off a barrage of angry statements from telecommunication companies, […]
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The Clintons gave it their all in Election 2014 but were unable to rescue endangered Democratic incumbents or carry into office promising new party leaders. A bigger task awaits: Hillary Clinton must now come to the rescue of a defeated, bedraggled party. It’s what you hear in this Washington, and from Democrats who abandoned the Clintons […]
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